International Media Makes Us Realize Our Situation

Hello Everyone!

As we all know, today was the biggest march ever since democracy is back! And of course, after these masive events, the world puts its attention on Chile.
                                                                                                                             International Media presented these demonstrations and their requirements objectively and unadorned (in opposite to the national media, who are showing the bad things only complaining about damage), because they are not afraid of what the government will say, they just expose reality. The impact of the education reforms implemented since Pinochet to now converge in this characteristics of education, a truly reflection of the neoliberal world economy. This system also carries other serious problems of different kinds as inequality, inequity and the loss of our basic rights.

Unfortunately, Chile is shown like a country where is easy to come here with a little money and leave with a fortune: “A real paradise for investors”. Nobody likes that neighbors know of our blunders, but this vision about our country that foreign media is giving to the international community is good, because it creates the pressure to remedy the situation: “when someone else finds out your problems, it’s time to improve them”.

Because of the custom, our own society considers this a "normal" condition, but international news open our eyes and makes us realize that although is “tradition” it’s completely wrong and it doesn’t have to stay in this way forever. We cannot allow that this country favors profit over the right to a quality public education. Chile deserves something better and as we see today, finally the society became aware of that and supports us.

Today the Chilean people have spoken, now the politicians must take their role as truly agents of change and do something about it!

Looking for Creativity Conservation

For today, I must talk about a Kenneth Robinson's Conference called "School Kill Creativity", made in 2006 in Monterey, California.

First of all, he is an important English expert, professor, speaker, advisor and author involved in topics related to education, creativity, arts, innovation and some others.

Second, there are 3 things that we have to know:

1) There is a lot of variety of creativity.

2) Creativity makes our future, and we don´t know how far it will go and what is going to happened then.

3) Children are expert on it; they use their imagination and innovation all the time. “If you are not prepared to be wrong, you can’t be prepare to be original” Kids are not afraid to be wrong, that is why they are so creative, but when we grow up we lose that talent.

In this meeting, Sir Robinson says that the biggest problems of education are represented by the way of teaching, because the actual system of education wastes those talents:

Creativity is such important in education as literacy teaching, but in every educational system exists the same hierarchy: first mathematics, second language, then humanities and finally arts, and this hierarchy is based only on those topics that are useful for work and now it also contribute to the access to the universities. 

In the next 30 years, according to UNESCO, the degrees will be less important because there will be so many professionals, is because of this that competency will increase, and exactly those faculties that the system destroy (especially creative) will be the most relevant.

I’m totally agree with him, we need to realized that intelligent is variety, dynamic, interactive, that is why we must reconsider all those principles of education based on the range of capabilities of the human mind. But the truth is that is very difficult to apply a particular form of education for each student. Now most of the children go to regular schools, the exceptions are those extremely talent and fortunate kids who have the opportunity to go to an especial academy to cultivate their abilities. Anyway, they are only a few. I think that this system will not change (at least in the short time), which is a shame, because maybe we are losing genius.

Solar Impulse

Hello People!

Today we have a free task, so I’m going to talk about a really interesting Swiss project that is trying to make a big change in environmental and transport topics: I’m referring to SOLAR IMPULSE. The idea is to eliminate our petrol’s dependence and is because of this, that a complete multi-disciplinary team of 50 specialists from six different countries created a particular plane powered only with solar energy. Last May 13, they complete the first international flight, from Duebendorf to Bruselas, in an airplane of these characteristics and today (June, 14) they made the second international flight, from Bruselas to Paris. Now, they expect to have the same success with the first circling of the earth and I’m sure they will.

“All that is impossible remains to be achieves” Jules Verne.

About Solar Impulse:

The project is directed by Bertrand Piccard y André Borschberg, both pilots.

About the plane:

At day it flies using the solar panels while is charging the batteries, is because of this that it can flis at night too. So it can continue day after day without stop. It has the record of flying 26 hours and 9 minutes without need any external source of energy.

This project proves that we don’t need that much the traditional energy as we think. We can reduce our dependence of fossil fuels by using others sources of energy, that are alternatives, renewables and definitely more cleaners. The most important thing is that we don’t have to wait the future, because the technology for a change exists now, but we need to demand it, that is the only way to make it more popular and at the same time help our planet.

If you are looking for more information, you must follow these links:

http://www.solarimpulse.com/
http://www.muyinteresante.es/videos-solar-impulse-avion-solar-energia-solar-el-primer-vuelo-solar-internacional

4 SHARED

It will sound weird, but I must say that I dislike internet. Well, it’s true that it is a really useful tool for work or study. But, the idea of to spend hours on it kind of boring me, I prefer to do others things in my free time. Anyway, there are some websites that I have to visit every day which are Facebook and Hotmail, I’m not a big fan, but I need to know what is going on with my friends and family.

Oh! Now I remember a page that I absolutely love! It’s www.4shared.com . First of all it’s completely free, and you can download a lot of song, movies, books, etc... It has no limit, everything you want; only you must wait 20 second for each file. There are also people that pay for them and they don’t have to wait, but definitely not me.

Of course that this page has a serious legal problem, even there is many artists that do not accept their songs there and they just removed them, like Depeche Mode, Seal, Eminem, Lady Gaga, Green day, Snoop Dogg and Prince, so if you want one of their songs you must look for it directly, no by the artist.

I know that do this is a crime against intellectual property, but I don´t care, I’m not gonna buy an original album, because they are so expensive here in Chile, I can´t pay for them, so I honestly thanks for pages like this one.